The Law How do the police enforce gun control in the future with 3D printers?
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Think of the possibilities!!
You could build a whole new you, evo!
How the world would love two evos, eh? Just print off each part, assemble and keep the old one around for sentiment's sake. Sorta, Shelley's Workshop.
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You could print yourself into eternity. Just keep printing as needed and hope the toner doesn't run out.
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They could send the printers out in squad cars, two at a time, to patrol the streets. A new industry will spring up, whereby ink is available at service station pumps. The hardest part, as always, will be finding the printer drivers.
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Hopefully we'll see a "buy back" scheme from the Libs to get those old dot matrix printers off the streets.
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Effectively all they've done is sticky tape some popsticks to his hand...
In all seriousness, this is going to be a monumental problem. If you draw the analogy with mobile phones, the current generation of 3d printers are this-
Fast forward 15- 20 years to the 3d printer equivalent of this
And you get some sense of just how big this technology could get and how many challenges it could present given the theoretical possibilities.
What if it gets to the point where you can print the parts for a bushmaster chain gun? Or a lump of C4 and a detonator? or amphetamines? or a smallpox virus sample?
As has been said, as this technology advances you imagine there will be very strict controls on what patterns are available, and laws put in place to prevent possession of no-nos, but so far attempts to prevent transmission of information on the web have proven a dismal failure.
Fast forward 15- 20 years to the 3d printer equivalent of this
And you get some sense of just how big this technology could get and how many challenges it could present given the theoretical possibilities.
What if it gets to the point where you can print the parts for a bushmaster chain gun? Or a lump of C4 and a detonator? or amphetamines? or a smallpox virus sample?
As has been said, as this technology advances you imagine there will be very strict controls on what patterns are available, and laws put in place to prevent possession of no-nos, but so far attempts to prevent transmission of information on the web have proven a dismal failure.
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How would that be enforceable? The DEFCad files were removed but it's easily available over filesharing services.
Depending on how advanced these printed firearms become, I don't see why current laws would change. You could make one that's just as effective with a trip to Bunnings, but you never hear about them.
If you look at how rapidly technology tends to improve after the first consumer models are released, i think that gun is the first tiny tip of what is a massive iceberg which will surface in the coming decade.
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I'm buying my printer now before I have to submit to a background check, probably two so I can keep one in my bunker, ready for the rapture/new world order/zombie hoard/nuclear winter/breakdown of society/gay holocaust/global warming/meteor strike/rise of the dinosaurs.
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